[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] [PITTSBURGH] MOORE, Helen Adams

Excerpts from Annual Letter of Morgan Community House

[Pittsburgh: 1924]. Octavo. Staple-bound, glazed printed wrappers; 7,[1]pp. Gentle external wear; Very Good.

The Morgan Community House, a church-sponsored social welfare mission in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was active from 1919 to 1925. This fundraising prospectus is essentially a collection of brief case studies culled from the Settlement's annual report, most being portraits of distressed families and youth being rescued through the staffs' intervention – for example: "A woman having been very badly treated by her husband in Virginia, ran away. Two years later she married a man in Pittsburgh. Was finally located here and arrested to be taken back to Virginia....we were notified, visited her in jail...secured a lawyer and when the case was called she was paroled to Morgan House...her lawyer secured her a divorce from the first [husband]...she is now happily married to her second husband and is keeping house." Not located in OCLC, nor do we find any other publications from this author or organization.

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